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16 comments

Shopaholla

September 13 2011, 04:06PM

Nice. This will be an awesome way to create smarter “Sub-categories” of sorts. Well done Shopify team!

businesscat

September 13 2011, 07:36PM

This is going to make things so much easier.

khedaywi

September 13 2011, 10:48PM

Awesome! Long time coming :)

ben

September 14 2011, 11:43AM

Can you describe this in more detail with perhaps a demo?

lisa

September 15 2011, 10:08AM

Will there be any hierarchy of collections?
If any item is in 1 collection and has several tags, now I can include it in those collections by tag, too.
Will any collection take precedence over another in terms of how they are displayed?

Wael

September 20 2011, 10:48PM

Oi, I’ve been waiting on this for a while.

Oh well, time to reframe.

Chris Antoniou

October 15 2011, 11:03AM

Thank you. What would make this super useful is if we could use the OR operator in smart collections combined with this new addition. To give an example, I’m building a site that sells lots of cheese. Each item is tagged with it’s country name so it’s easy enough to create a smart collection that matches a single country tag eg. French Cheeses.

However, when it comes to creating a smart collection for British Cheeses for example, I can’t specify product tag England OR product tag Scotland OR product tag Wales etc. I either have to give each of these products an additional tag of ‘British’ or manually add them to a normal collection. Please please please add this soon, i’m dreading all the manual work for over 700 products :(

Thomas Crampton

November 12 2012, 07:32PM

I fully agree with the request from Chris Antoniou. It would be much more valuable to have the “or” operator or even “contains” for tags. This would allow true “smart” collections. In advance, thank you for doing this soon!

Chris Bricker

December 06 2012, 12:46PM

We really need EITHER an ‘OR’ condition (which, I understand, might convolute the interface) or we need some negative operators (e.g. Does NOT Contain). Without this, currently, it’s difficult to avoid overlapping Smart Collections.

The purpose of Smart Collections is to give us ways to avoid having to manage products in collections individually, so tagging things individually is counter-intuitive.

Mark Gray

January 12 2013, 01:48PM

I agree with Chris Bricker, I would really like to have some negative operators available also.

Brandon Vogt

January 20 2013, 07:10PM

I would also really like to see negative operators.

Stephen

February 27 2013, 11:34AM

+1 for an “OR” operator. Without it, smart collections are almost as frustrating as exact-match search criteria.

craig kanarick

April 11 2013, 05:38PM

Agree with the need for OR!

cabezud

October 10 2013, 01:30PM

+1 for OR operator.

Rob

December 03 2013, 06:09PM

Really, really need an OR operator… without it smart collections are useless. I’m with the above!